Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-03-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsn1NaroN, D. G. Feb. 2s. 1ss7.

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WASHINGTON, d. G. Feb. %, 1887.
The defeated Pension bill, the Cabi-
net succession, the change of Inaugural
ton day, the new President Of the SEN
ate, and the probable extra session OF
the Senate are the matters that have
been the most talked about here dur
ing the past week.
The President is anxious to avoid ask
ing the Senate to remain in session
after the fourth of March, but when
asked whether he would be ready TO
submit the important nominations up
on which he desired its action in time
to obviate such necessity, he replied
that it was impossible for him to tell.
The Interstate Commerce nomina-
tions have given him much perplexity.
and now the question has been raised
as to his Constitutional right to ap-
point to a newly created office which is
to be filled by and with the advice and
consent OF the Senate, while the Senate
is not in session. It's held by certain
Senators that the power by which the
President fills vacancies which have
occurred during vacation, cannot be
applied to the filling of newly made
office.
1t seems that Mr.. White, ex-presi-
dent of Cornell University and ex-Min-
lister to Berlin, was much annoyed that
the correspondence between the Presi-
dent and himself in relation to his TAX
ing place on the Interstate Commits
sion should have been made known to
the public. He says the President
merely wrote him letter asking him
if his name could be consideredin max
ing up the Commission. 1t is under
stood that Mr.. White would really have
liked to acceptthe place but was dis
suaded by friends on the assumption
that the Commissioners will fail ia
satisfy either the people or the rail-
roads, and that however able they may
be, they must inevitably incur the
charge of fincOmpetency.
On the Republican side of the Sen
ate Chamber there are four men each
of whom would do credit to a dime
museum as the living skeleton. They
are Senators ingalls,, Sherman. Malone
and Evarts. The longest and lankest
of them all is the gentleman from Kan.
sas, who has just been sworn in as
President of the Senate in place of Mr.
| Sherman, the next most attenuated
member Of the quartette. Mr.. ingalls,
is as stiff and studied as it is possible
to imagine, and upon taking the Vice.
Presidents chair he made character.
istic little speech in honor of the re.
tiring Senator with which he (Mr. In
CALLS looked we'll pleased. Beginning
with a burst of modesty he said he
EInust inevitably suffer disparagement
by comparison with the learning and
parliamentary skill; the urbanity and
Accomplishments of his illustrious pre-
decessor, but he would strive to equaI
him in devotion to the duty imposed
upon him, ETC., which all of them
promise. EE3
| There was an exciting scene in the
House of Representatives on the day
that it voted to sustain the Presidents
veto of the Pauper Pension bill. The
galleries were crowded to their utmost
capacity with spectators who listened
eagerly to all that was said, and tooF
part in the demonstrations of approval
and disapproval.
Among the notable speeches made
was one by Gen. Bragg of Wisconsin
| WIN OpChCu lOl tIIC SluC
He began by saying that it was tim
for the Members of the House to ge
out of the roseate bubble in which the,
! lived in Washington, prepared for then
by claim agents, and drifted along i'm
impeled by a species of sympathetic
impulse, regardless of reason ol
Judgment, until the period was
reached which eliminated in the
presentation and passage of the most
scandalous bills which had ever beer
sent to president for signature. The
people of the country, without regarG
to party, had every reason to be thank
full that this bill had been placed before
an Executive who had backbone
enough to meet the situation. The Gen
eral had proceeded but short time
when Gen. Henderson, of Iowa, hoping
to excite him, inquired contemporary
"Do you stand by the President?" Mr.
Bragg coolly replied that no staff com
missary could excite him, he was speak
ing for what he considered the soldiers
interest. '.
The first fashionable season which the
mistress of the White House has seer
in her present position, closed week
dSO. Vic IctIuTc VI IL at lc2tSl, Is WOTLiIl
of note. Of the innumerable printed
and spoken comments made respecting
her, she herself says there has not beer
one hyper-critical remark that reached
her. On the contrary they have beer
complimentary and kindly in the
highest degree. When it is remembered
that Mrs. Cleveland, without expert.
ence, entered upon the most difficult
social duty that woman could at
tempt, and that she is the younges
mistress that the Presidential Mansion
ever had; trusting solely to her owl
womanly instincts, good breeding anc
good heart, it is not speaking toe
strongly to say that her success ha!
been really wonderful.
1.-THE Cosmopolitan" for March.